Loudspeakers blaring anti Conor Lamb message in Greensburg, PA today

[PA Democrat]

For background, Greensburg is the Westmoreland County seat and is in PA-18.

My husband was in Greensburg this morning and he said there was a truck with loudspeakers parked near the county courthouse blasting a message that tomorrow's election was critical and that people had to vote for Saccone to block Nancy Pelosi's radical agenda. He said it was surreal. Neither of us has seen anything approaching the amount of dirty campaign messages as have come from Saccone and the Republicans.

I thought campaigns stop running negative ads and go positive shortly before election day. Saccone has gone full-blown negative and downright dirty until the very end.

Smells like DESPERATION.

[ismnotwasm]

1. K&R

[lagomorph777]

26. I guess that's why Lamb is up by 6 points now

People don't like being blasted by loudspeakers.

[TheBlackAdder]

41. I know, right? The only place that worked was in the movie, The Blues Brothers.

[BumRushDaShow]

2. This nonsense about "Nancy Pelosi agenda"

continues to ignore the fact that Pelosi is not in charge of the House. Eddie Munster is.

[JDC]

4. And even if she was, what radical agenda? Equal rights? Healthcare?

Nancy Pelosi is by no means a "radical"...I don't get why she is constantly made out to be one. It wreaks of desperate Fox News-ism. Seriously, it is such a soft foundation to stand on.

[BumRushDaShow]

8. They create their "boogieman (woman)"

as part of the "manufacture fear" and "insult your opponent" tactic that they have successfully deployed for decades. It's part of their objectification process where they rely on their supporters to go no further than the negative "imagery" of the person vs what the person actually believes in and has accomplished.

[zipplewrath]

29. Truth be known

Even with the "Blue Wave", the democrats wouldn't have enough of a majority to "push through" very much at all. They'll get procedural control of the body, but Trump will be able to veto anything. Quite honestly, the less than insane GOP members could actually team up with the more moderate/conservative democrats and get more done than they would fighting with their own insane right wing.

[BumRushDaShow]

30. At this point

when one has experienced a near-mortal wound, one needs to immediately apply a tourniquet to it to stop the bleeding, and then go from there.

Taking back the House will be the tourniquet to allow the caucus to re-group and then maybe carry out some real oversight. Certain beneficial legislation would still stall but some of the insane stuff could be stopped in its tracks.

[zipplewrath]

31. Stop the freak show

The change in the senate could stop the freak show of substandard appointees.
The change in the House could allow investigations.
And when the various "crisis" legislation has to be written, the democrats would get to write it.
The challenge will be when Mueller's report is written.

[BumRushDaShow]

33. THIS

[jmowreader]

42. That could be entertaining

Send good bills - ones that will help people, aren't expensive, and have broad support - to the White House, let him veto them, and use his vetoes against him in the 2020 election.

[DeminPennswoods]

28. That's true, but if you happened to catch

the segment on MSNBC where one of the hosts went to the 18th to interview 4 Trump voters, 3 of the 4 said they were voting for Saccone so he could help implement Trump's agenda. Apparently none of voters understood/knew/realized Rs control all 3 branches of gov't.

[BumRushDaShow]

32. Drumpf voters are voting for anything related to him regardless

Despite the fact that he is a New York City born and bred billionaire, they see his behavior is no different from theirs and that is why they are drawn to him (and it's also why he was continually shunned by the NY blue blood class).

[DeminPennswoods]

43. Crass is as crass does

nt

[Nevernose]

34. Didnt Lamb come out AGAINST Pelosi?

Didn’t Lamb come out AGAINST Pelosi? At least that’s what I think I heard on Vice News, that Connor Lamb was partly running on an anti-Pelosi platform plank.

[BumRushDaShow]

36. That is what the news keeps focusing on

But then by even focusing on that, it suggests that the consensus is that Democrats would take the House and there is this "fear" of Pelosi being Speaker again.

Ironically, when she became Speaker after the 2006 election, she made the House actually show up for work (previous to that, they had some years with the fewest number of work days in recent history at the time).

[blue neen]

3. Wow! Shades of Nazi Germany!

The Republicans are so desperate that they're now using Nazi Propaganda Tactics.

Geez!

[Exotica]

5. your comments reminded me of this

especially the last 3 minutes

[blue neen]

9. OMG!

It's the Rick Saccone Campaign! Perfect!

[PA Democrat]

14. You win the thread. Love the bicycle scene!

[BumRushDaShow]

35. LOL

Rally with a farmer and 3 children.

[PA Democrat]

6. To make matters worse, he got in his car and immediately

heard a Saccone ad that was smearing Lamb playing on the radio.

Can't wait for Saccone and his filthy negative campaign to be tossed in the historical trash bin along with other losing Republican candidates!

[blue neen]

10. The Saccone radio ads are horrible.

The vile liars go droning on and on.

[PA Democrat]

22. I just emailed my husband the link to watch the Monty Python video and......

you guessed it, he had to watch a negative ad by Saccone ripping Conor Lamb on guns.

[blue neen]

23. Oh, cripes.

Their ads are like some type of insidious disease.

[n2doc]

7. Pretty unimaginative

And counterproductive. I would be pretty pissed off at the noise.

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

11. You, on the motorcycle, vote for Saccone!

taking their tactics from the Blues Brothers I see.

[blue neen]

19. "We're outta gas".

That sums up Saccone and his Republican friends!

[NCTraveler]

12. You stay dirty when you think you can't get anymore to come out for you than already are.

Positive messaging is to get people out. Negative is to suppress.

[PA Democrat]

20. Seems like that is their strategy.

Lamb has a very big GOTV effort going. We've gotten THREE phone calls and one person came to our door since Saturday.

[janx]

13. Oh my god I wish we had audio/video!

Do you think anyone has one?

[PA Democrat]

18. I wish hubby had thought to record it on his phone.

I will check around to see if one turns up.

[janx]

21. I'd love so much to hear it--and see it!

[hatrack]

15. There's never a bagpiper around when you need one . . .

[blue neen]

17. Lol!

I love that bagpiper!

[0rganism]

24. beautiful - would it work in PA?

given enough bagpipers, a whole new campaign strategy could evolve

[lindysalsagal]

40. Cute knees!

Who knew???!!!

[MineralMan]

16. That strategy is more likely to backfire than succeed, I think.

[yardwork]

25. So does this mean that Nancy Pelosi is progressive after all?

We keep being told that she's not, but the Republicans seem to think she's super progressive.

Which is it?

[zipplewrath]

27. Republicans lie

does that explain it?

[yardwork]

37. They seem to be very worried about her. Anybody who worries Republicans is good to me.

[zipplewrath]

38. They are worried they'll lose

They think they can scare the voters by making them fear her, instead of the GOP candidate.

[lindysalsagal]

39. I REALLY don't want to live in a town that allows that. Geesh.

Get a noise ordinance for crissakes!